The woman, referred to as “Grace”, claimed he had continued to initiate sexual activity despite her using verbal and non-verbal cues to indicate how uncomfortable she was. In a statement, Ansari said they had engaged “in sexual activity, which by all indications was completely consensual”, but, after receiving a text from her the next day stating otherwise, he had taken “her words to heart and responded privately after taking the time to process what she had said.”

Reporter Ryan Glasspeigel wrote: “If you didn’t know about the controversy, you wouldn’t have realised that this was the beginning stage of Ansari’s re-emergence from it. My sense during the show was that the crowd was aware of the saga, but not judgemental about it. A woman sitting in front of me told me she saw it as ‘very low on the scale of ‘bad date’ to ‘Harvey Weinstein’.'”

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“We certainly have given some thought to it,” the platform’s programming executive Cindy Holland said when asked if Netflix would continue to produce the TV series. “We certainly would be happy to make another season of Master of None with Aziz.”